Empire Service or Northeast Regional
The two routes share one station, New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station. The table lists what each shows and how long each takes; the route pages carry the full stretch tables.
Side by side
| Empire Service | Northeast Regional | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to Albany-Rensselaer | Roanoke to Boston |
| Duration, end to end | 2 h 31 m | 17 h 42 m |
| Frequency | Daily | Daily |
| Trains | 233 northbound, 234 southbound | 66 eastbound, 151 westbound |
| Named stretches with a cited source | 3 | 7 |
| Shows | Big rivers, Wine country | Big rivers, Big cities, Mountains |
| Headline stretch | Hudson Highlands | Potomac River and the monuments |
| Headline stretch in daylight | northbound: daylight, 12:24 p.m.; southbound: daylight, 8:11 a.m. | eastbound: dark, 9:20 p.m.; westbound: daylight Feb; dawn Mar; daylight Apr to Sep; dawn Oct; daylight Nov; dawn Dec to Jan, 7:39 a.m. |
Duration, frequency, and daylight are computed from the Amtrak GTFS timetable (fetched 2026-10-15) for the representative trip in each direction; daylight is the phrase for the headline stretch, the highlighted row of each route page. Named stretches are counted from the cited route guides. How these are computed.